Sure, start out with minimum wage, but fuck sakes, give those employees who stay dedicated for many years an “adult wage.” So many long time hard working employees I know make a little more then minimum wage. Eleven bucks an hour is usually great for the average teenager without children, living at their parents’ house, but paying 11 bucks for five-plus years of dedicated work…FUCK YOU! Also it seems many employers pay minimum wage and over work their staff. Fuck Nova Scotia needs more quality jobs. —Pay us fairly
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If you’re still working for minimum wage after five years, you’re taking a job from a student…
Just curious about how much personal and professional development you participated in over those five years.
Why would an employer pay more for the same product they bought 5 years ago unless you did something to make yourself more valuable?
The expectation that just because you hang around for a while you deserve to be compensated substantially more is not realistic. In those cases you should be happy with a 1-3% per year. Otherwise, you need to make yourself worth more in order to demand more compensation.
Good luck with your studies.
The issue with that, The Other Safety Guy, is that human beings are not products and they deserve a living wage. I’m pretty sure there was a study released stating that to live in Halifax comfortably you would need to make something like $23 an hour. How do you expect an employee to “make themselves worth more” (whatever that means) if they can’t afford to? School, extracurricular activities, etc. all cost money and making $11 an hour barely pays the rent on a shitty one bedroom is Dartmouth.
Some people are stuck in their jobs for a reason. Some people choose to stay in their jobs for a reason. Either way, dedicated employees can be hard to come by and should be compensated for their dedication.
Or we could just, you know, dismantle capitalism, form a socialist utopia, and give every individual what they need to survive instead of allowing corporations to make billions off the backs of their underpaid and overworked employees.
@smorespoptart
Because every good argument starts with “I am pretty sure there was a study…”
I get that some people may be stuck in their jobs, but that is not the employer’s fault. No one manages your career but you and if you don’t take responsibility for your own outcomes, blaming someone else is only going to set you back further.
From a strictly business perspective, human beings are products; tools used to accomplish the work of the company. What the f*ck do you think an interview is? They are shopping for the best tool to do the job at the best price. Most businesses will pay what the market demand for that product is worth: minimal experience and education = $11.00/hr. Years of experience, a degree, or two, a professional designation =$40.00/hr. See the difference?
Based on your naive, unrealistic perspective of your socialist utopia (hard to type that without laughing) a doctor, lawyer, an accountant, a Timmy’s server and a mechanic should all be compensated at the same rate? This isn’t, and will never be, Star Trek.
Good luck
While I agree with most of what you say Other Safety Guy, your statement, “The expectation that just because you hang around for a while you deserve to be compensated substantially more is not realistic.” falls apart when you look at teachers, nurses and anyone else in a union. Teachers, for example are getting an 11% salary increase over 4 years (when you combine the NDP’s raise and the latest Liberal mandated salary increase). Have they each gone to school for more education? No, they get paid more on top of that raise if they get extra education (substantially more I might add). I’m not debating if they deserve/not deserve more, that’s a separate issue. So, yeah for all non-union people, your argument is sound. For those in a union, you do actually expect to get paid more by simply putting time into your job.
I’m actually curious to know what the job is?!
What kind of education are you gonna get with $10/h? Lol, you’d be better off going to jail to get a trade.
Just because you don’t have a degree doesn’t mean you don’t deserve a life without a living wage and benefits. Everyone likes to think they’re better than someone, but no matter if you make $10/h or $40/h, some rich guy/girl just pissed away your yearly salary on their dog’s birthday party.